30 October 2026

Mistral releases open-weight Mistral Large 4 with mixed benchmark results

First reported

ZDNET ran this on 29 October, a day before the next source picked it up.

Mistral, a French AI company, released the weights of its Mistral Large 4 model, letting others download and run it.
On the Artificial Analysis Coding Agent Index, the model ranks at the top among open models, per Mistral's claims.
On the overall composite Index, it scores 48, one point behind GLM-5.3 at 49, and tied with Codex GPT-6.1 Terra.

Our read

Only Latent Space among the 30 tracked newsletters covered this release, which ZDNET first reported on 2026-10-29. Our archive earlier flagged Mistral Large 4 on 2026-10-09 as a trillion-parameter model with weights due later, and this story is the weights release itself.

Earlier on this story

Oct 11Mistral and Reflection AI release large new open-weight AI models
Oct 21AI-built replacements for a $43K speaker-management tool: results mixed
Oct 9Mistral releases Large 4, a trillion-parameter model, with weights due later

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